Re: hurd does NOT need /hurd
* Colin Watson writes:
> Looking at version 2.2 at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/, section 3.1, it
> explicitly says that "software must never create or require special
> files or subdirectories in the root directory", over and above those
> specified in the standard. As a result, my reading suggests that
> distributions including such software aren't compliant with the current
> version of the FHS. Which part are you looking at?
I think the key word here is "software", the FHS is a bit vague about
this, does it mean third-party software? Which is what I think Jeroen
is reading it as. In that case there would not be an violation against
the FHS.
The FHS only requires what directories have to be in /. Not what
directories one might add for the whole system to use.
To quote section 3.2:
The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, are
required in /.
<list of required directories>
And if this is not the case, i.e. that software here means the whole
system. Then Debian does not follow those rules by having /cdrom and
/floppy and by not having /opt AFAIK. :)
Cheers,
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Alfred M. Szmidt
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